"Wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one's own advice."
- Sam Harris11/13/2016
"Wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one's own advice."
- Sam HarrisWhat do great thinkers think about?
11,341 People spanning 2800 years across the globe.
Combine pantheon data set with quotes scraped from brainyquotes.com
Use Vector representation of words to create a similarity matrix
# Get most similar authors
author = "Donald Trump"
most_similar = sort(similarity_matrix[author, ], decreasing=TRUE)
most_similar = most_similar[-1] # exclude top element
most_similar[1:10]
> most_similar[1:10]
Barack Obama Mitt Romney Michael Bloomberg Rush Limbaugh Joe Biden
0.3946898 0.3838377 0.3516579 0.3513637 0.3312210
Madeleine Albright Michael Moore Newt Gingrich Paul Ryan Rick Perry
0.3190586 0.3116183 0.3104181 0.3067323 0.3036870
Accuracy?
> unique(pantheon$industry) [1] "GOVERNMENT" "PHILOSOPHY" "LANGUAGE" "INDIVIDUAL SPORTS" "FILM AND THEATRE" [6] "NATURAL SCIENCES" "MILITARY" "INVENTION" "FINE ARTS" "MATH" [11] "DESIGN" "RELIGION" "MEDICINE" "COMPUTER SCIENCE" "MUSIC" [16] "COMPANIONS" "OUTLAWS" "SOCIAL SCIENCES" "BUSINESS" "EXPLORERS" [21] "ACTIVISM" "ENGINEERING" "HISTORY" "TEAM SPORTS" "MEDIA PERSONALITY" [26] "LAW" "DANCE"
Demo: Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, Donald Trump